Milton Across Borders and Media

Milton Across Borders and Media is an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception across diverse media from the seventeenth century through today. This volume presents new essays on the adaptation of Milton's works into various languages and media around the world.

Part I poses questions about how we can effectively situate and engage with Milton's works within the multimedia networks of the present day. Part II 'Interlingual Borders' keys in on the cultural, technological, and temporal elements of interlingual translation that make them intersemiotic. Part III 'Verbal Borders' features media that draw out the themes and characters of Milton's writing through verbal expression. Part IV focuses on the transference of Milton's verbal artwork into visual artwork, from book illustration to stained glass. Part V 'Auditory Media' extends the focus on multimedia, with aural media as the chief feature.

Islam Issa, Professor of Literature and History, Birmingham City University,Angelica Duran, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies, Purdue University

Islam Issa is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University. He is author of Milton in the Arab-Muslim World (2016), winner of the Milton Society of America's First Book award, Shakespeare and Terrorism (2021), and Alexandria: The City that Changed the World (2023). He is co-editor of Milton in Translation (2017), winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award, and Digital Milton (2018). As a broadcaster and curator, he has presented radio and TV programmes including Cleopatra and Me: In Search of a Lost Queen, and curated exhibitions at public venues including Shakespeare's Birthplace.

Angelica Duran is Professor at Purdue University where she has been on the English and Comparative Literature faculties since earning her PhD in English Literature from Stanford in 2000, and has served as Director of the Religious Studies Program and Interim Director of the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of over 60 shorter publications and two monographs, most recently Milton among Spaniards (2020). She is the editor or co-editor five volumes including Milton in Translation (2017).

Part I: Intersemiotic Approaches
1. Introduction: 'The Meaning not the Name', Angelica Duran and Islam Issa
2. Motives, Methods, and Milton: Presentism Reconciled to Historicism, Michael Ullyot
3. Milton in the Age of Twitter: Carey's The Essential 'Paradise Lost', Peter C. Herman
4. Milton for Students: Towards a Teaching and Learning Archive, David Currell
Part II: Interlingual Borders
5. Latinizing Milton in the English West Indies, Katie Mennis
6. Milton's Paradise Lost in Frisian Translations, Geart van der Meer
7. On the Faroese Reworking of Paradise Lost, Turið Sigurðardóttir
8. Milton Lost and Regained in Turkey, Mustafa Kirca, Hasan Baktir, and Murat Öğütcü, with Islam Issa and Angelica Duran
Part III: Verbal Borders
9. Madhusudan's Miltonic Epic, the Meghnādbadh kābya, Amrita Dhar
10. Encountering Milton in Linmark's Leche, Stephen K. Kim
11. Paradise Lost for Hispanoamerica's Youth, Mario Murgia
Part IV: Visual Media
12. Narrative Structure, Intervisuality, and Theology in Auladell's El Paraíso perdido, Jan F. van Dijkhuizen and Lucy McGourty
13. Miltonic Motifs in Russian Poetry and Art, Amina Gabrielova
14. Illuminating Milton's Gendered Instant of Creation, Wendy Furman-Adams
15. From Milton's Paradise Lost to Blake's Milton, Camille Adnot
16. Paradise Lost in Stained Glass, Beverley Sherry
17. The Synergies of Drawing and Painting Paradise Lost, Richard Kenton Webb, Islam Issa, and Angelica Duran
Part V: Auditory Media
18. The Milton and Music Problem, Seth Herbst
19. Quoting Milton in Musical Appropriations, Stephen M. Buhler
20. Miltonic Tempters in Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, Jonathan R. Olson
21. Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling Milton's Works with and as Prosthetic Sign Systems, Angelica Duran
22. Milton Marathons, John Hale
Epilogue, Hugh Adlington